Quotes about ideas
ideas two minutes
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes. Robert Andrews Millikan
ideas force ifs
Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Robert A. Heinlein
ideas niche sweeping
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. Robert A. Heinlein
ideas giving creative
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait. Robert A. Heinlein
ideas long niche
The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth. Robert A. Heinlein
ideas firsts delusion
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? Robert A. Heinlein
ideas giving too-much
I never give too much thought to the idea of universality. Rirkrit Tiravanija
ideas might too-much
If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas. Rirkrit Tiravanija
ideas years church
For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church. Tim Allen
ideas role-models honor
I like the idea of being a role model. It's an honor. Tiger Woods
ideas giving gems
Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right. Steven Wright
ideas hip-hop identity
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from. Steven Sater
ideas people stuff
There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent. Steven Soderbergh
ideas people stories
I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas. Steven Soderbergh
ideas might kind
Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense. Steven Soderbergh
ideas car red-lipstick
The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie. Steven Soderbergh
ideas looking-good thousand
If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea. Steven Soderbergh
ideas long bad-ideas
All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long. Steven Spielberg
ideas television tables
Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original. Steven Spielberg
ideas looks world
I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look upon to be an absurdity; the currency should regulate itself; it must be regulated by the trade and commerce of the world; I would neither allow the Bank of England nor any private banks to have what is called the management of the currency. Richard Cobden
ideas yankees trying
So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start. Reggie Jackson
ideas people important
Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden. Robert Bresson
ideas messages energy
You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there. Tom Shadyac
ideas creative trying
That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out. Tom Kelley
ideas giving levels
We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level. Tom Hodgkinson
ideas impact sorority
I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me. Toni Morrison
ideas silence desire
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences. Toni Morrison
ideas clothes want
I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas. Toni Morrison
ideas racism mastery
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas. Toni Morrison
ideas brain world
When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy. Tommy Chong
ideas dimensions exhausted
It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster. Tom Udall
ideas firsts artistic
The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea. Tom T. Hall
ideas progress firsts
Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress Tom Stoppard